Todays Word

somewhen

PRONUNCIATION:

(SUHM-(h)wen) 

MEANING:

adverb: At some indefinite or unspecified time; sometime.

ETYMOLOGY:

From Old English sum (some) + when, from Old English hwenne. Earliest documented use: 1297.

NOTES:

Somewhen is the ultimate excuse for procrastinators who refuse to be pinned down by the linear constraints of a clock. I told my editor I’d have the revised manuscript over to her somewhen. She told me she’d pay me somemoney.

USAGE:

“It is fun to know that serious scientists believe the fabulous alternate realities of the Philip Pullman novels could be accurate descriptions of reality (for in a multiverse of infinite size and scope there will, somewhere and somewhen, be a world where a little girl called Lyra befriends a talking polar bear and where people’s souls take the form of animal familiars).”
Michael Hanlon; Reality Check Required; New Scientist (London, UK); Feb 9, 2008.